2020 Tobacco Use: Before, During and After Pregnancy

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by  Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Epidemiology

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Tobacco Use
Before, During, and After Pregnancy
Source: CDC Missouri Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS 2020). 
Before Pregnancy
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31%
20%
of women
smoked
before
Nearly 1 in 3 WIC
pregnancy
participants smoke
cigarettes 
During Pregnancy
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of pregnant women are screened for
96%
cigarette use during prenatal care 
74%
11%
of women
of women who smoke
smoked
during pregnancy received during
 pregnancy
Medicaid benefits
After Pregnancy
45%
15%
of women
Almost half of women
smoked
after relapse after quitting
pregnancy
smoking while pregnant 
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E-Cigarette Use
1 in 10 women used
9%
e-cigarettes in 2 years prior to
pregnancy. 
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6% 2%
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of women used of women used
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e-cigarette in the e-cigarette in the •••
3 months before last 3 months
pregnancy during
pregnancy
Did you know? Promote Tobacco
Cessation 
MO HealthNet offers help to quit
Use the “Ask, Advise, and Refer”
smoking.
● Food and Drug Administration- approach to increase cessation rates
– it takes just 3 minutes!
approved medications
● Individual counseling
During the postpartum checkup,
● Group counseling
42% of the mothers who smoke
● Coverage for unlimited
quit attempts said that their health care worker

did not ask if they were smoking
cigarettes. 

Please visit or call:

Missouri Tobacco Quitline
800-QUIT-NOW (800-784-8669)
or www.quitnow.net/Missouri

Department of Health and Senior Services: Tobacco Control
health.mo.gov/living/wellness/tobacco/smokingandtobacco/
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This project was funded in part by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Title V Maternal
Child Health Services Block Grant and was supported by the Health Resources Services Administration
(HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant #04MC40144, Maternal
and Child Health Services for $12,299,305, of which $0 is from non-governmental sources. This
information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official
position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government. 
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